Call Center Performance

Root Cause Analysis in the Contact Center

Posted on April 09, 2018 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Call Center Tools • Call centre consulting • Case Study • Customer Experience • Customer Reach • Root Cause Analysis • Strategy

Tags: Call Center Consulting• Colin Taylor• Contact Center Consulting• Contact Center Management• Contact Center Strategy• Customer Service Consulting• Root Cause Analysis• Strategy

By: Colin Taylor It always amazes me how Contact Center managers, their direct supports, and their superiors often fail to use one of the best tools at their disposal, Root Cause Analysis. Of course, if you are always fighting fires it is difficult to find the time and/or resources to research what is causing the […]
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Calculating Schedule Adherence in the Contact Center

Posted on March 21, 2018 in Adherence • Call Center Performance • Metrics • People management

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition: The percentage of time your agent was exactly where they were scheduled to be. Calculation: Agent’s scheduled log in time – total amount of minutes out of schedule adherence X 100 Agent’s scheduled log in time Example: An agent is scheduled to work […]
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Medical Marijuana Company Appoints Contact Center Consultancy to Develop Agent Training Program

Posted on March 13, 2018 in Agent Experience • AHT • Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Call centre consulting • Education • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Press Release

Customer Experience and Contact Center consulting firm, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., is designing an Agent On-Boarding Training Curriculum. TORONTO (PRWEB)March 13, 2018 The Taylor Reach Group, Inc., a globally acknowledged and leading Contact Center and Customer Engagement consulting agency, announced today that they have secured a Contact Center Agent Training Re-Design agreement with […]
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Calculating Occupancy in the Contact Center

Posted on March 08, 2018 in Call Center Performance • Contact Center • Contact center consulting • Metrics • Occupancy

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seyrafiaan Occupancy Definition: The percentage of your agent’s logged-in time spent in direct contact with a customer or in activities directly following and related to that contact (e.g. After Call Work). Calculation: Total Contact Time (Talk Time + After Call Work) /Total Logged-in Time The equation can be applied for […]
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Leading by Example: What our Supervisors Need to Know

Posted on February 21, 2018 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Employee Engagement • Employee Experience • Occupancy • People management • Supervisor

By: Peg Ayers, MBA, CCXP “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Do as I say, not as I do.” Nobody says it aloud. But it’s illustrated every day when people give rules and advice to others that they don’t follow themselves. New supervisors can […]
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3 Key Factors for Successful Quality Assurance

Posted on January 23, 2018 in Call Center Performance • Metrics • Quality Assurance • Quality assurance

By: Peg Ayers & Turaj Seryafiaan Quality Assurance (QA) is a metric with nearly as many variations as there are companies in the world. Every company has an idea of what they want quality to look like, and each creates a system they believe will bring them to that standard of quality. It’s […]
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Calculating Average Handle Time in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs

Posted on January 03, 2018 in AHT • Average handle time • Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience • IVR • IVR • Metrics

By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Average Handle Time: The average time spent handling a contact with a customer, which may be a call, email, chat or any kind of request. The total handle time includes not only the time that an agent spends directly communicating with the customer but also time spend […]
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Calculating Abandon Rate in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs

Posted on December 19, 2017 in Abandon rate • abandon rate • Call Center KPIs • Call Center Management • Call Center Metrics • Call Center Performance • Contact Center KPIs • Contact Center metrics • Customer Experience • Customer Experience Metrics • IVR • KPIs • Metrics

By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Abandon Rate: The percentage of calls ended by the caller before being answered by an agent. Calculation: Abandoned Calls/ (Abandoned Calls + Answered Calls) X 100 Example: 90 calls are answered; 10 calls are abandon before they’re answered. Abandon rate is 10/ (10+90) which is 10%. Alternate […]
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Calculating Service Level in Light of Customer Experience and IVRs

Posted on December 12, 2017 in Call Center Management • Call Center Performance • Customer Experience Metrics • Facts and Figures • IVR • IVR • Metrics • Service Level

By: Peg Ayers and Turaj Seyrafiaan Definition of Service Level: The percentage of calls answered within a set threshold. Note: Service level applies to live contacts so the same definition can be used for other channels such as Chat or SMS. Other channels such as email, fax and even social media are measured based on […]
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Taylor Reach Group Working with Major Veterinary Hospital on Telephony Sourcing Project

Posted on December 05, 2017 in Call Center Consulting • Call Center Performance • Call Center Technology • Call centre consulting • Contact Center Technology • Customer Experience Management • Technology • The Taylor Reach Group

Toronto, ON – December 5, 2017 – The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. (TRG), a globally recognized consulting firm focused on optimizing clients’ Contact Centers and Customer Experience (CX), today announced they are working with one of the largest veterinary hospital organizations in the United States and Canada. Taylor Reach is working on a telephony […]
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